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Baltimore White Supremacist Arrested for Hate Crime Assault

Three individuals were arrested after the severe racially invoked beating of an elderly African-American man. Calvin Lockner, 28, Zachary Watson, 17, and Emmanuel Miller, 16, were charged with 18 counts. The teenagers were arrested on August 19, and were charged as adults. Lockner was arrested on August 18. The three attacked the 76 year-old man while he was fishing early August 18, beating him with baseball bats or sledgehammers, while shouting racial slurs. Afterwards, the three stole the victim's vehicle and fled the scene. The victim had severe head injuries, including a fractured eye socket and two missing bottom teeth. Lockner was arrested after the vehicle crashed but the teens fled capture. Lockner has the nickname of "Hitler" and has multiple white supremacist tattoes over his body, including the face of Hitler saying "He Lives" underneath. Lockner also told police that he was a white supremacist and said the attack would not have happened if the victim were white. Lockner is also a convicted sex offender with charges of first degree attempted murder, rape, kidnapping and sex offenses after allegedly raping a 4 year-old girl and attempting to kill a 39 year-old woman.

Source: [|www.ADL.org] Date: August 31, 2009

Reaction: While it is unfortunate that these kinds of events happen, there will always be people out there that will do these kinds of terrible things to other people for no reason other than being different than them. I have no doubt that these people will get a fitting punishment but it's just sad that these things happen. There will always be racism and hate in the world and that cannot be avoided. **